Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility at a glance
Bureau of Prisons use ended in 2022 at the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility in Post, Texas: the Bureau funded its last contract year there through June 30, 2022, and ended its last private-prison contract, elsewhere, on November 30, 2022. Management & Training Corporation ran Dalby for the Bureau as a prison for non-citizen men. Families will find no address, deposit route or phone line for it below.
The rows below come from the dated federal records listed in Sources.
| Official name | Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility (Bureau contract awards; PS 5111.04, 2017) |
|---|---|
| Also called | Correctional Institution Giles W. Dalby; CI Dalby; Giles W. Dalby Correctional Center |
| Status | No Bureau contract after 2022. Last funded base year ended June 30, 2022. Not on the Bureau’s institution roster (checked September 19, 2026) |
| Operated by | Management & Training Corporation (MTC), the contractor on every Bureau award for Dalby we found, 2007 to 2022 |
| Location | Post, Garza County, Texas |
| Security level | Low (Inspector General’s table of contract facilities, February 19, 2015) |
| Held | Men: low-security non-U.S. citizens, most under immigration detainers (Inspector General, 2020) |
| Bureau relationship | Contract facility under Criminal Alien Requirement contracts: DJB1PC006 (from January 2007), short follow-on awards in 2017 to 2019, then 15BPCC19C00000030 (base years July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2022) |
| Finding someone | Use the Bureau’s Inmate Locator; for someone released to immigration custody, ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System |
On this page
What happened to Giles W. Dalby?
The Bureau let its last Dalby contract lapse at the end of its base period. The federal record, in order:
- January 2007. Contract DJB1PC006 with MTC for an existing contractor-owned prison at Post, running to September 30, 2017; bridge awards carried its terms into 2019, one of them described as the operation and management of the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility in Post.
- May 23, 2017. The Institution Hearing Program statement lists Dalby as a release site but not a hearing site (PS 5111.04 at p. 15).
- July 2019. A new contract began: three base years, then seven one-year options (Inspector General Report 20-096 at ii n.3).
- May 2021. Listed among immigration hearing program facilities (Report 21-123 at 31).
- June 30, 2021. Funding for base year three, July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022 (modification P00058), the last year funded.
- August 9, 2022. The award’s last invoice adjustment, for June 2022; its recorded period of performance ends September 30, 2022.
- December 1, 2022. The Bureau announced that it had ended all contracts with privately managed prisons, the last of them on November 30.
- September 19, 2026. Dalby did not appear on the Bureau’s institution roster.
The record shows funding for base years only, none for an option year. The 2017 policy and the 2021 report also describe Dalby’s hearing role differently, and neither explains why.
Where are the people who were held at Dalby?
Most were headed for immigration custody. In 2020 the Inspector General found that “Most inmates at Dalby are under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers”: when a man’s criminal sentence ended, he would pass to ICE to await the outcome of removal proceedings (Report 20-096 at iii). Men still serving when the Bureau left went to what its December 1, 2022 statement calls “BOP locations.” We publish no list of receiving prisons and place no one.
Check two places. The Bureau’s Inmate Locator needs both names or a register number; a man still serving appears under “Located at:” with his current prison, while a release label with a date means the Bureau no longer holds him. ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System searches by nine-digit A-Number or exact name, each with country of birth. See our inmate locator guide and our page on transfers.
What was the Dalby facility?
A low-security prison the Bureau’s awards describe as contractor-owned and contractor-operated. The Inspector General’s table of February 19, 2015 listed it with MTC as contractor and 1,840 people held (Report 15-15 at 3); by June 2020 it held about 1,439 men and had 267 correctional staff (Report 20-096 at iii).
In the Inspector General’s 2020 count of the Bureau’s 11 contract prisons, which held more than 14,500 of roughly 157,000 people in Bureau custody, GEO ran nine and CoreCivic and MTC one each; MTC’s was Dalby (Report 20-096 at i).
The operator’s name has circulated wrongly, including on an earlier version of our Texas page, as “Management & Training Solutions.” The Inspector General’s 2020 report and the Bureau’s awards both name Management & Training Corporation. The prison itself appears in federal records as Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility, as Correctional Institution Giles W. Dalby and as Giles W. Dalby Correctional Center. On immigration hearings, see our page on the Institution Hearing Program.
What did the 2020 remote inspection find?
It ran by telephone, documents and a staff survey from April 29 to June 9, 2020, with no visit (Report 20-096 at ii). Dalby reported no positive cases when fieldwork ended; four men tested positive on June 22, and by August 4, 2020, 83 had tested positive and one had died.
The findings cut both ways. For two weeks the prison could not follow the CDC’s April 3 guidance on cloth face coverings because it lacked enough of them, and Bureau guidance usually reached contract prisons one to five days after it reached Bureau-run institutions, though with little virus around at the time those delays did not appear to affect Dalby materially (at ii). On the other side, Dalby had enough bed space to set up a celled unit for medical isolation and quarantine, enough health staff to add screening, and a staff survey in May 2020 that rated it above average on protective equipment, timely guidance and handling of possibly sick prisoners (at ii–iii).
Federal prisons still operating in Texas
All 13 Texas institutions on the Bureau’s roster are Bureau-run; our Texas federal prisons page lists them with the Bureau’s September 10, 2026 population figures. The state’s other former contract sites have record pages: Big Spring Correctional Center and the Reeves County Detention Complex. The Georgia prison whose contract closed out the program, McRae, and our explainer on closures and deactivations give the national picture. Which prison holds a person is the Bureau’s designation, not something this site suggests.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who operated the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility?
Management & Training Corporation, usually shortened to MTC. That name is on the Inspector General’s 2020 report about the prison and on every Bureau contract award for Dalby we found, from 2007 through 2022. “Management & Training Solutions,” seen in some listings, is not the operator.
Does the Bureau of Prisons still send anyone to Dalby?
No. The last funded year of the Bureau’s contract ended June 30, 2022, and on December 1, 2022 the Bureau said it had ended every contract with a privately managed prison. Dalby was absent from the Bureau’s institution roster when we checked on September 19, 2026.
How do I find a man who was held at Dalby?
Search the Bureau’s Inmate Locator first, with a first and last name or a register number. If his federal sentence has ended and an immigration detainer applied, search ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System next, by A-Number or exact name, each with country of birth.
Where was the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility?
In Post, in Garza County, Texas. The Bureau’s contract awards give Post as the place of performance, and the Inspector General’s 2020 report places the prison there too. Nobody is held there for the Bureau, so an old address for it will not reach anyone serving a Bureau sentence.
Did immigration judges hear cases at Dalby?
The records do not settle it. The Bureau’s Institution Hearing Program statement, as changed in May 2017, lists Dalby as a release site but not a hearing site, while the Inspector General’s 2021 review counts Dalby among the program’s facilities as of May 2021.
Did COVID-19 reach Dalby?
Yes. The Inspector General reported no positive cases at Dalby when its fieldwork ended on June 9, 2020. Four men tested positive on June 22, and by August 4, 2020, 83 men had tested positive, 74 had recovered and one had died.
Where we can help
A question about sentence credit, a transfer or release planning after time at Dalby is the kind of federal custody matter our lawyers handle.
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Sources and currency
Federal records
- USAspending.gov, awards DJB1PC006, 15BPCC18C00000023, 15BPCC18C00000027 and 15BPCC19C00000030 (modifications P00040, P00058 and P00081).
- DOJ Inspector General: Report 20-096 (August 2020), at i–iii; Report 15-15 (April 2015), at 3; Report 21-123 (September 2021), at 31.
- PS 5111.04, Institution Hearing Program, CN-1 (May 23, 2017), at p. 15.
- Bureau of Prisons: roster, September 19, 2026; BOP Ends Use of Privately Owned Prisons, December 1, 2022.
Sources reviewed September 2026; web records read September 19, 2026.
Reviewed for legal accuracy by Elizabeth Franklin-Best, Esq., Principal Attorney·September 2026